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GATE. v K No. 346,483. Patented Aug. 3, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

JOHN COLEMAN LEVIS AND VILLAIN HENRY RANEY, OF DECATUR, TEX.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,483, dated August 3, 1886.

Application tiled August 531, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that we, JOHN COLEMAN LEWIS and WTLLAIN HENRY RA'INEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Decatur, in the county of Vise and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Gates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to animprovementin gates; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices that will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of agate embodying ourinvention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, the gate being shown closed in solid lines and open in dotted lines.

A represents the central post, B the post against which the gate closes, and C the post against which the gate opens. These posts are of a suitable height to allow a wagen to be driven under a track-rail, D, that is secured on their upper ends. Near the post C, between it and the post A, is a short post, E. Lower rails, c, which form a continuation of the fence, are secured to the p'osts A, E, and C, and an upper rail, e', which likewise forms a continuation of the fence, is secured to the posts C and E, the projecting end of said rail extending a short distance beyond the post E toward the post A.

F represents a gate,which is eolnposed of the horizontal rails f and the vertical end bars, f. At the upper ends of these bars are journaled grooved rollers G, which bear on the trackrail and suspend the gate therefrom. The lower side of the gate is prevented from moving laterally by a keeper, H, which is secured near the lower end of the post A, between which keeper and the adjacent side of the post A the lower rail ot' the gate slides.

To the upper end ot the post A is secu red a horizontal bar, I, that extends on opposite sides et' the post at right angles to the trackrail and the gate. This bar is braced by diagonal bars K, and at the outer ends ot' the bar I are fulcrumed the operating hand-levers L, which extend outwardly from the bar l, parallel therewith, and have their inner ends approaching each other.

Near the lower end of the post C, on the side Serial No. 174,098. (No model.)

opposite the rails e e, is pivoted one end of a lever, M, the free end of which extends nearly to the post A. On the the inner side ot the extending end of the rail c is pivoted the lower end of a lever, N, by a pivotal bolt, a, and to this lever N, near its lower end, is fnlerumed one end of alever, l), the opposite end of which is connected tothe free end of lever M by a U shaped spring bail-rod, O, the arms of which extend from the ends of the levers l? and M to the inner ends of the hand-levers L, to which they are connected. A lever, It, has one end pivoted to the outer end bar ofthe gate, as at r, and the free upper inner end of said lever is connected to the upper end of the lever N by a bolt, r.

A person approaching the gate, when the latter is closed, grasps the outer end of one of the hand levers and pulls it down, which raises the free end of thelever M, and through the connecting lever or pitman l? raises the jointed levers N and R. As the outer end of the lever N is pivoted to a fixed point, and as the lever R is connected to the gate, it follows that when the said jointed levers are raised the gate will be drawn to an open position. After the person has passed through the gateway, he pushes upwardly upon the outer end of the oppositelyextending hand-lever, which reverses the movement above stated and closes the gate, as will be very readilyunderstood.

XVe are aware that it has been heretofore proposed to provide a sliding suspended gate with toggle-levers connecting it with a 'fixed point, and hand-levers attached to the togglelevers for raising and lowering them, and thereby opening and closing the gate, and this,therc fore, broadly, we disclaim.

XVe are also aware that ithas been proposed to provide a suspended sliding gate with a pair of toggle-levers connecting the gate with a fixed point, and a lower pair et' similar levers connecting the toggle levers before mentioned with the gate, and hand-levers connected to the joint of the lower toggle-levers; but such is not our construction, and this, also, we disclaim.

Having thus described our invention, we claim- The combination of the suspended rolling gate, the toggle-jointed levers N and ll, connecting the gate with a iixed point, the lever I (l O M, pivoted at one end to a xed point, the Iel In testimony that We claim the foregoing as 1o ver P, pvoted* to the lever N near the outer our ovvn we have hereto affixed our signatures end of the latter, the lower end of the lever P in presence of two witnesses.

being attached to the free end of lever M the v pivoted hand-levers fulcrumed on opptsite JOHN COLEMAN LEWIS sides of the gate, and the rod O, connecting WILLAIN HENRY RAINEY' the inner ends of the said hand-levers with the Witnesses: connected ends of thelevers'M and P, substanl J. S. DEVEREUX,

tially as described.

J. XV. PATTERSON. 

